Memorial Fund Summary for 2018
Marith Reheis, CSS Past President
One of Colorado Scientific Society’s most important functions is providing assistance to the next generation of scientists by awarding grants through its Memorial Funds Grant Program. The Society maintains six funds that are supported by gifts from members and friends. The six funds are the Ogden Tweto Fund, the Steven Oriel Fund, the Edwin Eckel Fund, the Bill Pierce Fund, and the George Snyder Fund. Each fund targets specific geoscience disciplines. Total income ranges from about $8,000 to $11,000 which is awarded to senior undergraduates and graduate students through a competitive application process. The principal balances remain untouched assuring continuation of the program.
In 2018 the Society continued this time honored tradition with a generous total of $11,900 available for distribution as listed in the following table.
- Tweto $3,700
- Oriel $2,200
- Eckel $1,700
- Pierce $1,300
- Snyder $3,000
Many students submitted applications, and the selection process was very competitive. There were many excellent submittals covering a wide variety of topics. Applications came from institutions from across the country, and Colorado institutions were well represented. The Memorial Research Funds Committee consisted of Marith Reheis, Society Past President and committee chair; Bob Raynolds, Society President; Melissa Foster, Councilor; James Hagadorn, Society member; and Don Sweetkind, Society Treasurer and Past President. The following students received grant awards:
Samantha Bartnik, Masters candidate at New Mexico State University: Stratigraphic, provenance, and sediment dispersal trends from Lower-Upper Cretaceous clastic strata of the Sevier foreland basin in northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. Awarded from the Tweto Fund.
Jeremiah Bernau, PhD candidate at University of Utah: Depositional and diagenetic history of and surface dynamics of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Awarded from the Eckel and Pierce Funds.
Hannah Cayes, Masters candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Timing and mechanisms of formation of fluorine-enriched, topaz-bearing gneisses in the Colorado Front Range. Awarded from the Snyder Fund.
Anthony Fuentes, Masters candidate at University of New Hampshire: A High Resolution Magnetostratigraphy of the K-Pg Boundary Interval, Corral Bluffs Denver Basin, Denver, Colorado. Awarded from the Tweto Fund.
Andrew Graber, PhD candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Estimation of Rockfall Recurrence Intervals, Glenwood Canyon, CO. Awarded from the Eckel Fund.
Derek Lichtner, PhD candidate at University of Wyoming: Modulation of Internal Fluvial Dynamics by Climate Events: A Combined Channel Architecture– Floodplain Approach. Awarded from the Oriel Fund.
Simone Muller, Masters candidate at University of Northern Colorado: Dating deformation in the Big Thompson Canyon, northen Colorado Front Range: Distinguishing accretionary orogen models. Awarded from the Snyder Fund.
Caroline Nazworth, Masters candidate at University of Kansas: Evaluating Models for Cretaceous Paleodrainage and Sediment Routing using Detrital Zircon U-Pb Provenance and Geochronology of the Colorado Front Range. Awarded from the Tweto Fund.
Zachary Palmer, Masters candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Constraining the geological evolution of Precambrian Zn–Cu–Pb sulfide-bearing metamorphic rocks and associated granitic intrusions in the Wet Mountains, southern Colorado. Awarded from the Snyder Fund.
Meredith Parish, Masters candidate at University of Wyoming : Centennial-to-millennial-scale hydroclimate variability in the Rocky Mountains during the last two millennia. Awarded from the Eckel and Pierce Funds.
Stuart Parker, PhD candidate at Iowa State University: Age, depth and rates of exhumation of the Madison fault of southwest Montana. Awarded from the Tweto Fund.
Juliane Scamardo, Masters candidate at Colorado State University: Geomorphic Channel Response to Beaver Dam Analogues in the Front Range, Colorado. Awarded from the Eckel Fund.
Jennifer Taylor, PhD candidate at University of Minnesota: Interactions between crustal thermal structure and glacial landscape evolution from low-temperature thermochronology in the Pioneer Mountains, Idaho. Awarded from the Oriel Fund.
David Uribe, PhD candidate at Colorado School of Mines: Tracking the spatio-temporal evolution of the subducted Farallon oceanic slab beneath the Navajo Volcanic Field, central Colorado Plateau, USA. Awarded from the Snyder Fund.
Jessica Welch, Masters candidate at Western Washington University: Provenance and depositional history of the Fort Union and Willwood formations in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, U.S.A. Awarded from the Tweto Fund.
Ryan Wilhelmi, PhD candidate at University of Florida: Faulting or Flexure? Understanding uplift on the western Yellowstone crescent high terrane using apatite fission track. Awarded from the Tweto and Oriel Funds.
Congratulations to all those awarded grants and commendations for jobs well done for all who submitted but did not get picked this year. Keep up the great work!
